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The Dive: The untold story of the world's deepest submarine rescue
The Dive is a thrilling narrative nonfiction in the tradition of The Perfect Storm and Apollo 13. They were out of their depth, out of breath, and out of time. It was 1973. Two men were trapped in a crippled submarine 1,700 feet below sea. They only had enough air to survive for two days. On the ocean's surface there was a hastily assembled flotilla of rescue ships from both sides of the Atlantic. The world held its breath to await word of a rescue. In a routine dive to fix the telecommunication cable that snakes along the Atlantic sea bed, their mission had gone badly wrong. There was a catastrophic fault on board the Pisces III, and Roger Chapman and Roger Mallinson's mini-submarine went tumbling to the ocean bed almost half a mile below. The crippled sub and its crew were trapped far beyond the depth of any previous sub-sea rescue. They had just two days' worth of oxygen. However, on the surface the best estimates for a rescue of these men was a minimum of three days' time. The Dive is brilliantly researched by veteran journalist Stephen McGinty. Stephen adeptly reconstructs the race against time as Britain, America and Canada pooled their resources into a 'Brotherhood of the Sea' dedicated to stopping the ocean depths claiming two of their own. Based on previously undisclosed records, maritime logbooks, and exclusive interviews with all the key participants, The Dive takes the reader on an emotional and thrilling ride from the depths of defeat to a glimpse of the sun-dappled surface.
Stephen Mcginty (Author), John Tefler (Narrator)
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From the River to the Sea: The Untold Story of the Railroad War That Made the West
A sweeping and lively history of one of the most dramatic stories never told—of the greatest railroad war of all time, fought by the daring leaders of the Santa Fe and the Rio Grande to seize, control, and create the American West. It is difficult to imagine now, but for all of its cloudy peaks and gorgeous coastline, the American West might have been barren tundra as far as most Americans knew well into the 19th century. While gauzy advertising promotions of the West as a paradise on earth intrigued citizens in the East and Midwest, many believed the journey too hazardous to be worthwhile—until 1869, when the first transcontinental railroad changed the face of transportation. Railroad companies soon became the rulers of western expansion, choosing routes, creating brand-new railroad towns, and building up remote settlements like Santa Fe, Albuquerque, San Diego, and El Paso into proper cities. But thinning federal grants left the routes incomplete, an opportunity that two brash new railroad men, armed with private investments and determination to build an empire across the Southwest clear to the Pacific, soon seized, leading to the greatest railroad war in American history. In From the River to the Sea, bestselling author John Sedgwick recounts, in vivid and thrilling detail, the decade-long fight between General William J. Palmer, the Civil War hero leading the "little family" of his Rio Grande, coming down from Denver, hoping to showcase the majesty of the Rockies, and William Barstow Strong, the hard-nosed manager of the corporate-minded Santa Fe, venturing west from Kansas. What begins as an accidental rivalry when the two lines cross in Colorado soon evolves into an all-out battle as each man tries to outdo the other—claiming exclusive routes through mountains, narrow passes, and the richest silver mines in the world; enlisting private armies to protect their land and lawyers to find loopholes; dispatching spies to gain information; and even using the power of the press and incurring the wrath of the God-like Robber Baron Jay Gould—to emerge victorious. By the end of the century, one man will fade into anonymity and disgrace. The other will achieve unparalleled success—and in the process, transform a sleepy backwater of thirty thousand called "Los Angeles" into a booming metropolis that will forever change the United States. Filled with colorful characters and high drama, told at the speed of a locomotive, From the River to the Sea is an unforgettable piece of American history—and one of the last great untold tales of the Wild West.
John Sedgwick (Author), John Bedford Lloyd (Narrator)
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On Killing Remotely: The Psychology of Killing with Drones
A "can't-miss for anyone interested in current military affairs," On Killing Remotely reveals and explores the costs-to individual soldiers and to society-of the way we wage war today (Kirkus Reviews, starred). Throughout history society has determined specific rules of engagement between adversaries in armed conflict. With advances in technology, from armor to in the Middle Ages to nerve gas in World War I to weapons of mass destruction in our own time, the rules have constantly evolved. Today, when killing the enemy can seem palpably risk-free and tantamount to playing a violent video game, what constitutes warfare? What is the effect of remote combat on individual soldiers? And what are the unforeseen repercussions that could affect us all? Lt Col Wayne Phelps, former commander of a Remotely Piloted Aircraft unit, addresses these questions and many others as he tells the story of the men and women of today's "chair force." Exploring the ethics of remote military engagement, the misconceptions about PTSD among RPA operators, and the specter of military weaponry controlled by robots, his book is an urgent and compelling reminder that it should always be difficult to kill another human being lest we risk losing what makes us human.
Wayne Phelps (Author), Matt Kugler (Narrator)
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Ham Radio For Dummies: 4th Edition
Despite its old-school reputation, amateur radio is on the rise, and the airwaves are busier than ever. That's no surprise: being a ham is a lot of fun, providing an independent way to keep in touch with friends, family, and new acquaintances around the world. Hams are also good in a crisis, keeping communications alive and crackling during extreme weather events and loss of communications. If one or more of these benefits is of interest to you, then good news: the new edition of Ham Radio For Dummies covers them all! In his signature friendly style, longtime ham Ward Silver (Call Sign NØAX)-contributing editor with the American Radio Relay League-patches you in on everything from getting the right equipment and building your station to the intricacies of Morse code and Ohm's law. In addition, he coaches you on how to prepare for the FCC-mandated licensing exam and tunes you up for ultimate glory in the ham radio hall of fame as a Radiosport competitor! With this book, you'll learn to: - Set up and organize your station - Communicate with people around the world - Prep for and pass the FCC exam - Tune into the latest tech, such as digital mode operating
H. Ward Silver (Author), Matthew Boston (Narrator)
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Things Fall Together: A Guide to the New Materials Revolution
This audiobook narrated by Christopher Ragland delivers a manifesto for the dawning age of active materials Things in life tend to fall apart. Cars break down. Buildings fall into disrepair. Personal items deteriorate. Yet today's researchers are exploiting newly understood properties of matter to program materials that physically sense, adapt, and fall together instead of apart. These materials open new directions for industrial innovation and challenge us to rethink the way we build and collaborate with our environment. Things Fall Together is a provocative guide to this emerging, often mind-bending reality, presenting a bold vision for harnessing the intelligence embedded in the material world. Drawing on his pioneering work on self-assembly and programmable material technologies, Skylar Tibbits lays out the core, frequently counterintuitive ideas and strategies that animate this new approach to design and innovation. From furniture that builds itself to shoes printed flat that jump into shape to islands that grow themselves, he describes how matter can compute and exhibit behaviors that we typically associate with biological organisms, and challenges our fundamental assumptions about what physical materials can do and how we can interact with them. Intelligent products today often rely on electronics, batteries, and complicated mechanisms. Tibbits offers a different approach, showing how we can design simple and elegant material intelligence that may one day animate and improve itself—and along the way help us build a more sustainable future. Compelling and beautifully designed, Things Fall Together provides an insider's perspective on the materials revolution that lies ahead, revealing the spectacular possibilities for designing active materials that can self-assemble, collaborate, and one day even evolve and design on their own.
Skylar Tibbits (Author), Christopher Ragland (Narrator)
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Superconductivity: A Very Short Introduction
Superconductivity is one of the most exciting areas of research in physics today. Outlining the history of its discovery, and the race to understand its many mysterious and counter-intuitive phenomena, this Very Short Introduction explains in accessible terms the theories that have been developed, and how they have influenced other areas of science, including the Higgs boson of particle physics and ideas about the early Universe. It is an engaging and informative account of a fascinating scientific detective story, and an intelligible insight into some deep and beautiful ideas of physics.
Stephen J. Blundell (Author), L.J. Ganser (Narrator)
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Power of Solar Energy Bundle, 3 in 1 Bundle: Renewable Energy 101, Solar Powered Living, and Alterna
Power of Solar Energy Bundle, 3 in 1 Bundle: Renewable Energy 101, Solar Powered Living, and Alternative Energy Sources Perhaps everyone knows what solar power is. Solar power is renewable and can be used for different purposes. Examples are solar calculators, garden lights and fountains, and battery chargers. As long as the sun shines in the morning, you will get a renewable source of energy. For many years, solar power has been used but because of the inefficiency of the gadgets being used, it can’t be utilized to its fullest potential. Researchers and scientists are continuously making improvements so that even ordinary people can now use solar power for their homes and for businesses. If you’re looking for solar power info, you’ve come to the right place. Energy efficiency is one of the most cost-effective and easiest methods to combat climate change. This bundle will teach you everything about solar power, solar energy, and renewable energy. You will learn the benefits of renewable energy and the advantages of using solar power. You will understand how solar power works, its benefits and uses and how it can help reduce pollution and waste. You will know how you can use it in your home and what to expect on a home that is powered by solar power. This 3 in 1 bundle includes the following audiobooks: - Renewable Energy 101: Learn All About Renewable Energy Sources and How You Can Use Them to Save Power and Help the Environment - Solar Powered Living: The Essential Guide on How to Use Solar Energy and Transform Your Way of Living - Alternative Energy Sources: The Essential Guide on Alternative Energy Sources You Can Use to Help Save the Planet Get your copy of Power of Solar Energy 3 in 1 Bundle today!
Blake Baldwin, Harvey Marshall, Shelton Woods (Author), Marcus Mulenga (Narrator)
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The Bicycling Guide: The Ultimate Cycling Guide for Fun and Fitness, Get all the Useful Tips on How
The Bicycling Guide: The Ultimate Cycling Guide for Fun and Fitness, Get all the Useful Tips on How to Enjoy Cycling While Getting in Shape Cycling, as a sport, has grown tremendously in the last decade. And, thanks to stationary bikes, depending upon where you live, is a year-around activity. When we think of exercise, we don’t often consider biking as a form of exercise. Many may consider it as only a fun activity, but it truly involves exercising. Among the advantages include that you may bike solo, with family members of all ages, with friends or even competitively. In addition, there are opportunities to bike for a good cause. In doing this, you may raise money for that cause, thus helping someone else and yourself at the same time. It’s a sport that you may enjoy for your entire lifetime. This audiobook will teach you everything you need to know about biking. It can be biking for fun or biking as a form of exercise or biking as a sport. You will learn the benefits and how to get started. This audiobook will discuss the following topics: - Bicycle Apparel and Gear - Bicycle Types - Bicycle Seats and Comfort Bikes Make Cycling for Life Easier - Biking Accessories Make Cycling for Life Easier - Biking Trailers and Cargo Bags Make Cycling for Life Easier - Competitive Cycling is a Phenomenon - Cycling as a Family Activity - Cycling as an Excellent Form of Exercise - Cycling to Better Health - Cycling for Cardio Health - Cycling for Life By Biking to Work - Making the Most of Cycling With Organized Bike Rides - Making the Most of Cycling With Biking Events - The Health Benefits of Cycling for Life - The Environmental Benefits of Cycling for Life - And many more! If you approach the sport as a lifelong experience, you’ve taken a great leap in several positive directions for yourself. If you want to learn more, scroll up and click “add to cart” now!
Will Peters (Author), Marcus Mulenga (Narrator)
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Sun Tzu - The Art of WarSun Tzu - The Art of War The Art of War is an ancient Chinese military treatise dating from the Late Spring and Autumn Period. The work, which is attributed to the ancient Chinese military strategist Sun Tzu (also spelled Sunzi), is composed of 13 chapters. Each one is devoted to an aspect of warfare and how it applies to military strategy and tactics. For almost 1500 years it was the lead text in an anthology that would be formalised as the Seven Military Classics by Emperor Shenzong of Song in 1080. The Art of War remains the most influential strategy text in East Asian warfare and has influenced both Eastern and Western military thinking, business tactics, legal strategy, lifestyles and beyond. The book contained a detailed explanation and analysis of the Chinese military, from weapons and strategy to rank and discipline. Sun Tzu also stressed the importance of intelligence operatives and espionage to the war effort. Because Sun Tzu has long been considered to be one of history's finest military tacticians and analysts, his teachings and strategies formed the basis of advanced military training for centuries to come.
Sun Tzu (Author), Elizabeth Anne Harris (Narrator)
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The Moon Hoax?: Conspiracy Theories on Trial
This audiobook is about the American moon landings-and about the doubts expressed ever since concerning the reality of these landings. Were the images of men on the moon really just a huge and cleverly executed hoax? Eversberg explains the best-known claims and conspiracy theories, and analyzes the evidence with the help of detailed full-color images, as well as numerous film documents that can be accessed directly from the bonus PDF included with this audiobook. He addresses both the persistent older claims and more recently devised doubts. The audiobook will inform and entertain a wide range of readers interested in space exploration and tells a gripping story covering physics, politics, and history.
Thomas Eversberg (Author), Alex Boyles (Narrator)
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Food Truck Business: A Complete Guide to Starting and Running Your First Profitable and Enjoyable Mo
Do you want to turn your love for cooking into a profitable business venture and are considering starting a food truck business but are not sure what to do every step of the way until you succeed while at it? And are you looking for a guide that will break down the process to ensure it is dummy easy for you? If you’ve answered yes, keep listening.... You are about to discover the secrets of how to start, grow, and eventually build a successful food truck business! Generating over $2 billion a year in the US alone and with a growth rate of 7.3 percent that easily dwarfs that of traditional restaurant business (of merely two percent), establishing a food truck business is probably one of the wisest bests these days if you want to venture into the foods business! The question is.... How do you get started? How do you keep your startup costs low and your margins high? What do you even sell and how do you price your products? Are there any mistakes you should watch out for? If you have these and other related questions, this audiobook is for you! It will teach you: - The basics of the food truck business model, including why it has become so popular - How to get started in the food truck business - How you will benefit from running a food truck business as opposed to starting a restaurant - How to build a highly profitable food truck business at minimal cost - What to consider before starting your business - How to attract customers - Mistakes that you should avoid making when starting your business - And much more.... Even if you are completely new to this, this audiobook will break the seemingly complex topic for you to execute easily!
Douglas Haworth (Author), Richard J. Kane (Narrator)
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Test Gods: Tragedy and Triumph in the New Space Race
Brought to you by Penguin. Meet the astronauts leading the way to a new world of space travel. 'An instant classic.' SCOTT KELLY, astronaut and author of Endurance 'Adventure in its purest form - rich with risk, courage and friendships.' BEAR GRYLLS 'So exciting. A new generation with The Right Stuff.' DAN SNOW When Richard Branson founded Virgin Galactic in 2004, his goal was simple: to offer paying customers a trip to space by the end of the decade. Seventeen years, countless delays, and one catastrophic crash later, his space tourism dream may finally be on the verge of becoming a reality. New Yorker journalist Nicholas Schmidle knows that story intimately. He spent nearly four years embedded with Virgin Galactic at its California hangar, meeting the individuals working to make commercial space travel possible. Now, Schmidle offers the definitive account of life inside the new space race. Drawing on hundreds of hours of interviews with Virgin's lead test pilot, Mark Stucky, Test Gods describes the making of a modern astronaut. Schmidle recounts Stucky's life - from starry-eyed youth to NASA, the Air Force, and Virgin Galactic; and through dozens of gruelling test flights to his first successful trip beyond the earth's atmosphere. Along the way, we meet the colourful cast of engineers, executives and mechanics battling to take Virgin to space. There's Branson, who emerges as an excitable if overoptimistic evangelist for commercial space travel. There's Mike Moses, Virgin Galactic's grounded, unflappable president. And there's Mike Alsbury, the pilot whose momentary miscalculation sends his aircraft crashing into the Mojave Desert - making him one of the first casualties of the new space race. The result is a compelling examination of the inner lives of a new generation of astronauts. Theirs is a world where the line between lunacy and genius is blurred, and where no sacrifice is too great in pursuit of the dream of space travel. 'If you want to know what being a test pilot truly looks and feels and even smells like, read this riveting book. Schmidle has done something remarkable, capturing all the visceral grit we experience inside the cockpit, in addition to all the tragedies and triumphs that we encounter along the way. This is the book about the new space race you've been waiting to read.' SCOTT KELLY, astronaut and author of Endurance 'A hurtling narrative about the test pilots of the Virgin Galactic space program, Test Gods is a hugely ambitious feat of reporting and storytelling and a fitting twenty-first-century sequel to The Right Stuff. Schmidle captures not just the technical wizardry of the spaceships and the envelope-pushing prowess of the pilots, but also the very real costs, for the pilots and their families, of reaching for something beyond this world.' PATRICK RADDEN KEEFE, author of Say Nothing © Nicholas Schmidle 2021 (P) Penguin Audio 2021
Nicholas Schmidle (Author), Nicholas Schmidle (Narrator)
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